Forma Mechanica – Lesther Gutierrez

Forma Mechanica brings together painting, layered acrylic works, sculpture, animation, and immersive installation to explore how human presence can be constructed through space, light, material, and perception.

At the centre of the exhibition is a simple question: How little is required before we recognize another human presence?

Rather than treating the figure as a fixed image, Gutierrez breaks it apart. Anatomy becomes fragment, geometry, transparency, shadow, and movement. Across layered acrylic works, separate planes of foreground, body, and atmosphere intersect as light passes through them. Forms shift with the viewer’s position, allowing the figure to emerge, disappear, and reassemble through perception.

This relationship between body and space expands across Avant Garde Gallery. On the Ground Floor, paintings, sculptural works, and transparent constructions establish a visual language suspended between the organic and the mechanical. In the Underground, that language moves beyond the object and into an immersive environment, placing the viewer within the same conditions of light, movement, space, and perception that shape the works above.

The transition transforms viewing into participation. What begins as an image becomes an encounter; what appears solid becomes dependent on perspective.

Ultimately, Forma Mechanica considers presence as something we not only see, but construct–through fragments, relationships, and shifting encounters between ourselves and the spaces we inhabit.